What does your weekly camp schedule look like and your daily schedule? (Include the date, location and grade levels of your camp)
July 2010 Grades 3-5 Plymouth State University
Writing as a Treasure Hunt: Creative Adventures
Monday
9:00 Registration
9:15 Nametags, name game (toss hacky sack around circle, how could we make this faster?)
9:30-9:45 writing prompt
Imagine your life is now a book. In 100 words or less, write a blurb (summary) for the book.
9:45-10:15 Modpodge journals
10:15 snack
10:30-11:30 outside Memory Walk: Draw a map of a place you know really well, where you live or have spent time.
Pick one of these map memories and tell the story of that memory.
11:30-12:00 model conferencing using teachers writing, pass out conference paper (see attachment in forms section)
Tuesday
9:00 writing prompt
Where do you go when you want to get away and be by yourself? Write about that place.
9:30 guest naturalist Barry Draper: using senses to observe snake and other NH wildlife
10:00 walk to Fox Park
10:15 snack
10:30 create an Event Map at Fox Park
11:30 return to classroom
revisit a previous piece of writing
Wednesday
9:00 writing prompt
Are you more like an ant or a butterfly?
generate writing prompts to use with PWP fellows tomorrow
9:20 Phone book character sketch: index cards with first and last names from local phone book, use three artifacts that students brought in to include in story
10:15 snack
10:30 Extreme Close Up using tubes, read Zoom book by Istvan Banyai, , scientific vs. poetic writing
watercolor paintings of something close up
11:30 model conferencing, peer conferencing
Author's Notes: what was the inspiration
Thursday
9:00 meet at Lamson, student generated writing prompt with fellows
9:30 final revisions/conferencing
10:00 type stories in computer lab, parent volunteer
11:00 outside writing time: object left behind, what story does it have to tell after being left behind for 50 years
generate group poem
teachers stay late to print and bind anthologies
Friday
9:00 writing prompt
9:20 pass out anthologies
practice group poem and individual pieces
sign anthologies
10:30 set up for sharing
create writing prompts for families to do when they arrive
11:00 practice reading in auditorium
11:15 writing celebration
July 2010 Grades 6-8 Plymouth State University
Adventure Writing: Journeys into Landscapes
Monday
9:00 Registration
9:15 names on index card tents, partner interview
9:30 writing prompt: Explain what a writing prompt is and why/purpose.
If you had to wear one outfit for the rest of your life what would it be and why?
share with neighbor, group share?
9:45-10:15 Modpodge journals
10:15 Snack
10:30 Where I'm From poems, read poem by George Ella Lyon George Ella Lyon webpage
use I Am From Information Collection worksheet
(pages 3 & 4 of this document)
Teacher reads through each list, give them 2 minutes to brainstorm
reread Lyon's poem
write poems, share, create a group poem using one line from each person's poem
11:15 fiction story, subject/verb cards, last sentence of story
Tuesday 9:00 writing prompt Where do you go when you want to get away and be by yourself? Write about that place. 9:30 guest naturalist Barry Draper: using senses to observe snake and other NH wildlife, break into groups for small group observations 10:00 walk to Fox Park 10:15 snack 10:30 create an Event Map at Fox Park 11:30 return to classroom revisit a previous piece of writing
Wednesday 9:00 Write directions for how to do something real or ridiculous (make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, annoy your mother, walk the dog on the ceiling) Be as specific as possible. 9:25 Persona Writing: I, You, Me in the Cafeteria from an exercise by Clyde Edgarton (will scan handout soon) three related writing prompts of about 5-8 minutes each 10:00 Snack 10:15 Outside using song lyrics brought from home Using The 1st poem by Lucille Clifton work in groups of three to create line breaks for the poem Each group reads the line breaks aloud, discuss similarities and differences Take your favorite lyrics from your song and create a poem 11:00 model peer conferencing using handout, break students into groups of three, take turns workshopping each person's piece 11:30 work on revisions, continue with previous pieces
Thursday 9:00 meet at Lamson, student generated writing prompt with fellows 9:30 final revisions/conferencing Author's Notes: go over how to write about your inspiration 10:00 type stories in computer lab, practice group poem 11:00 outside writing time: object left behind, what story does it have to tell after being left behind for 50 years generate group poem teachers stay late to print and bind anthologies
Friday 9:00 writing prompt 9:20 pass out anthologies practice group poem and individual pieces sign anthologies 10:30 set up for sharing create writing prompts for families to do when they arrive 11:00 practice reading in auditorium 11:15 writing celebration
July 2010 Grades 3-5 Plymouth State University
Writing as a Treasure Hunt: Creative Adventures
Monday
9:00 Registration
9:15 Nametags, name game (toss hacky sack around circle, how could we make this faster?)
9:30-9:45 writing prompt
Imagine your life is now a book. In 100 words or less, write a blurb (summary) for the book.
9:45-10:15 Modpodge journals
10:15 snack
10:30-11:30 outside Memory Walk: Draw a map of a place you know really well, where you live or have spent time.
Pick one of these map memories and tell the story of that memory.
11:30-12:00 model conferencing using teachers writing, pass out conference paper (see attachment in forms section)
Tuesday
9:00 writing prompt
Where do you go when you want to get away and be by yourself? Write about that place.
9:30 guest naturalist Barry Draper: using senses to observe snake and other NH wildlife
10:00 walk to Fox Park
10:15 snack
10:30 create an Event Map at Fox Park
11:30 return to classroom
revisit a previous piece of writing
Wednesday
9:00 writing prompt
Are you more like an ant or a butterfly?
generate writing prompts to use with PWP fellows tomorrow
9:20 Phone book character sketch: index cards with first and last names from local phone book, use three artifacts that students brought in to include in story
10:15 snack
10:30 Extreme Close Up using tubes, read Zoom book by Istvan Banyai, , scientific vs. poetic writing
watercolor paintings of something close up
11:30 model conferencing, peer conferencing
Author's Notes: what was the inspiration
Thursday
9:00 meet at Lamson, student generated writing prompt with fellows
9:30 final revisions/conferencing
10:00 type stories in computer lab, parent volunteer
11:00 outside writing time: object left behind, what story does it have to tell after being left behind for 50 years
generate group poem
teachers stay late to print and bind anthologies
Friday
9:00 writing prompt
9:20 pass out anthologies
practice group poem and individual pieces
sign anthologies
10:30 set up for sharing
create writing prompts for families to do when they arrive
11:00 practice reading in auditorium
11:15 writing celebration
July 2010 Grades 6-8 Plymouth State University
Adventure Writing: Journeys into Landscapes
Monday
9:00 Registration
9:15 names on index card tents, partner interview
9:30 writing prompt: Explain what a writing prompt is and why/purpose.
If you had to wear one outfit for the rest of your life what would it be and why?
share with neighbor, group share?
9:45-10:15 Modpodge journals
10:15 Snack
10:30 Where I'm From poems, read poem by George Ella Lyon George Ella Lyon webpage
use I Am From Information Collection worksheet
Teacher reads through each list, give them 2 minutes to brainstorm
reread Lyon's poem
write poems, share, create a group poem using one line from each person's poem
11:15 fiction story, subject/verb cards, last sentence of story
Tuesday
9:00 writing prompt
Where do you go when you want to get away and be by yourself? Write about that place.
9:30 guest naturalist Barry Draper: using senses to observe snake and other NH wildlife, break into groups for small group observations
10:00 walk to Fox Park
10:15 snack
10:30 create an Event Map at Fox Park
11:30 return to classroom
revisit a previous piece of writing
Wednesday
9:00 Write directions for how to do something real or ridiculous (make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, annoy your mother, walk the dog on the ceiling) Be as specific as possible.
9:25 Persona Writing: I, You, Me in the Cafeteria from an exercise by Clyde Edgarton (will scan handout soon)
three related writing prompts of about 5-8 minutes each
10:00 Snack
10:15 Outside using song lyrics brought from home
Using The 1st poem by Lucille Clifton work in groups of three to create line breaks for the poem
Each group reads the line breaks aloud, discuss similarities and differences
Take your favorite lyrics from your song and create a poem
11:00 model peer conferencing using handout, break students into groups of three, take turns workshopping each person's piece
11:30 work on revisions, continue with previous pieces
Thursday
9:00 meet at Lamson, student generated writing prompt with fellows
9:30 final revisions/conferencing
Author's Notes: go over how to write about your inspiration
10:00 type stories in computer lab, practice group poem
11:00 outside writing time: object left behind, what story does it have to tell after being left behind for 50 years
generate group poem
teachers stay late to print and bind anthologies
Friday
9:00 writing prompt
9:20 pass out anthologies
practice group poem and individual pieces
sign anthologies
10:30 set up for sharing
create writing prompts for families to do when they arrive
11:00 practice reading in auditorium
11:15 writing celebration